A map of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis advertising a Washington State lumber company that exhibited at the fair. Oriented with North at the bottom, the map on the recto shows the entirety of Forest Park, the 1,200-acre site of the fair. The exhibition embraced over 1,500 buildings.....
The second edition of this important 1860s map of California and Nevada. First published in 1864, Bancroft’s detailed and striking pocket map of California and Nevada constitutes one of the best maps of Western America published west of the Mississippi during this period. Extracted from Bancroft’s Map of the Pacific.....
A scarce bird’s eye view of Bennington, Vermont by the prolific view-maker L. R. Burleigh, likely published around the time of the dedication ceremony for the Bennington Battle Monument, the tallest structure in Vermont. Based on Burleigh’s larger view of Bennington published in 1887, this view shows the town situated.....
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A map brochure issued by the Security Trust and Savings Bank of Los Angeles, intended to promote the city, to advertise the bank, and to closely identify the growth of the city with the growth of the bank. Appearing on the recto is “The Map of the City of Los.....
Revised edition. Originally published by Colton in 1846, this beautifully designed, circular map is a re-engraving of John Eddy’s renowned “Map of the Country Thirty Miles round the City of New York,” published in 1812. It shows the region around New York as far east as Suffolk County, Long Island.....
A richly detailed pocket map showing the western United States at the height of expansionism during the American Indian Wars, among the most widely distributed of its time and recognized as one of the best to depict the region. First published in 1864, this remarkably well-drawn and expansive map appears.....
An appealing Klondike Gold Rush-era map of Alaska identifying known gold-bearing areas and routes to gold fields, accompanied by text on Alaska’s geography, geology, gold deposits, and more. Depicting Alaska, the Klondike District, and the westernmost portion of the Northwest Territory, this map spans from Port Simpson in the east.....
A brilliantly colored and richly detailed case map of Ulster County, New York by John Homer French, the compilation of which was part of the foreground to the publication of his landmark map, The State of New York from New and Original Surveys, which appeared a year later. The map.....
An unusually attractive case map example of this handsomely hand-colored map by New England polymath Nathan Hale. Hale’s richly informative map, extending from Maine to the easternmost portion of New York, shows the towns, cities, counties, churches, rivers, mountains, etc. of all six New England States. Locating turnpikes, roads, canals.....
This charming map, with its appealing front-cover illustration depicting cyclists on a road, shows all of Bermuda from Somerset Island to St. George’s Island, and also includes an inset street map of Hamilton. A printed note in the lower left-corner provides information on the condition and nature of the roads.....
A dramatic visual and cartographic document of the city of Chicago, published in the wake of the Great Fire of 1871. The first images in this volume contrast “Chicago in 1820” with “Bird’s-eye View of Chicago in 1871—before the fire,” and are followed by a history of the city and.....
The first state of this scarce, important, and very fine map of Connecticut, offered here in desirable case map form, with beautiful original color. This large and impressive map depicts the entire state of Connecticut, as well as narrow portions of adjacent states, the whole of Long Island Sound, and.....